Sunday, February 8, 2026

Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris): TwitterX - #YogaAndLongevityGeneticsConvo Sat 2/7/26 open free Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays & in the mornings (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? * * * Excited if / for the #WaymoWorldModel becomes the basis for a #wikiRealisticVirtualEarth in 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth & think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GMAPS w #TensorFlowAI ... emerging from #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings where @WorldUnivAndSch students can all be creators in it * * * Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” How might @WorldUnivAndSch in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM, building on #MITOCW in 7 langs for #freeWUaSdegrees, get this list ? *.* * Olympics - Day 1 2/7/26 #RealisticVirtualEarthForSports w #GeminiAIreSports? * * * Superbowl - 2/8/26 Go Patriots! * * * 'Happy birthday, Mark (MacLeod)! - 2025' email thread in 2026 ~ places to stay during MacLeod parliament on the Isle of Skye -https://www.clanmacleod.org/parliament/parliament-2026/clan-macleod-parliament-august-2026-update/ & family genealogy genetics? I've heard back one edifying & erudite missive regarding giving a "Society, Info Tech and the Global University" paper, re Ch 9 in my upcoming book & WUaS



TwitterX - #YogaAndLongevityGeneticsConvo 

Sat 2/7/26
open free Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays & in the mornings (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? - Sat 2/7/26 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/02/kadamba-flower.html
12/25/25
https://youtu.be/F61foSTThsY 
12/27/25
https://youtu.be/AIKPYP939q8 
https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos 
#YogaAndLongevityGeneticsConvo #WUaSYoga~




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Excited if / for the #WaymoWorldModel becomes the basis for a #wikiRealisticVirtualEarth in 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth & think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GMAPS w #TensorFlowAI ... emerging from #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings where @WorldUnivAndSch students can all be creators in it. 


Excited if / for the #WaymoWorldModel becomes the basis for a #wikiRealisticVirtualEarth in 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth & think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GMAPS w #TensorFlowAI & a #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics emerging from #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings where @WorldUnivAndSch students can all be creators in it. 

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Excited if #WaymoWorldModel becomes basis for #wikiRealisticVirtualEarth & think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GMAPS w #TensorFlowAI & a #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics emerging from #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings where
@WorldUnivAndSch
 students can all be creators in it.

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2020260097897951560

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2020260475582529693

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2020260321219531233

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2020260571397124400

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2020260395706200490

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2020259813402517979

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2020260215506289003





Retweeting - 

Genie 3 🤝 @Waymo

The Waymo World Model generates photorealistic, interactive environments to train autonomous vehicles.

This helps the cars navigate rare, unpredictable events before encountering them in reality. 🧵






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Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” 

How might @WorldUnivAndSch in #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM, building on #MITOCW in 7 langs for #freeWUaSdegrees, get this list -
"Graduate Students’ #NSFFellowshipApps Are Being “Returned Without Review”" - https://eos.org/research-and-developments/graduate-students-nsf-fellowship-applications-are-being-returned-without-review @SenWarren @SenAlexPadilla as #WUaS accredits?

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2020221704778506493

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2020221955769790892

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2020222945931759874

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2020223784003989677

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2020223980603637807

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2020224490589053081

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2020224833787937231






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Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” - Eos https://eos.org/research-and-developments/graduate-students-nsf-fellowship-applications-are-being-returned-without-review 






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Olympics - Day 1  2/7/26 

#RealisticVirtualEarthForSports w #GeminiAIreSports?

Olympics 2/7/26
Team USA's best moments from Day 1 #WinterOlympics #TeamUSA
https://youtu.be/NwRr5xXg99A
(>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Athletics,_Physical_Education_and_Recreation  @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress)
#RealisticVirtualEarthForSports w #GeminiAIreSports?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2020564603638296615

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2020565167227256846






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Olympics - Day 1 

Team USA's best moments from Day 1 | Winter Olympics 2026 | NBC Sports
Feb 7, 2026 #WinterOlympics #TeamUSA 

How also to develop in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSports? 




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Olympics - Day 1 

Team USA's best moments from Day 1 | Winter Olympics 2026 | NBC Sports

https://youtu.be/NwRr5xXg99A

Feb 7, 2026  #NBCSports #WinterOlympics #TeamUSA
Look back on the standout highlights from Day 1 of the Milan Cortina Olympics, including Alex Carpenter and Megan Keller's goal against Finland, Team USA's curling match against South Korea and more. #NBCSports #WinterOlympics #TeamUSA #Olympics #MilanCortina  









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Superbowl - 2/8/26



Go Patriots! https://youtu.be/Eesu6XyNx_Q &  https://youtu.be/4zShusD66jI ! (To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Athletics,_Physical_Education_and_Recreation from /wiki/Subjects @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress) How to add to #RealisticVirtualEarthForSports w #GeminiAIreSports?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2020565812734554599

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2020565618899001773



AND

Go Patriots! https://youtu.be/Eesu6XyNx_Q &  https://youtu.be/4zShusD66jI ! (To https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Athletics,_Physical_Education_and_Recreation @https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Subjects @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress) #RealisticVirtualEarthForSports w #GeminiAIreSports?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2020553170188132537



Elizabeth Warren 
@ewarren
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As we gear up for the Super Bowl (go Pats!), remember that the Trump administration approved a billion-dollar consolidation of sports media between the NFL & ESPN.

Consumers deserve good competition on & off the field. This deal could force viewers to pay more for fewer choices.

https://x.com/ewarren/status/2020541303990169739





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'Happy birthday, Mark (MacLeod)! - 2025' email thread in 2026 ~ places to stay during MacLeod parliament on the Isle of Skye -https://www.clanmacleod.org/parliament/parliament-2026/clan-macleod-parliament-august-2026-update/ & family genealogy genetics? I've heard back one edifying & erudite missive regarding giving a "Society, Info Tech and the Global University" paper, re Ch 9 in my upcoming book & WUaS, at the 2026 International Social Media and Society #SMSociety conference at the University of Glasgow between M 7/13 & 7/15 ~


Mark, Tammie, Ma, Byron, all,

Thanks much for your email, Mark, this afternoon, and the good suggestions of places to stay on Raasay or Skye (from ~ F 7/31/26 - F 8/7/26) during the MacLeod parliament -https://www.clanmacleod.org/parliament/parliament-2026/clan-macleod-parliament-august-2026-update/. I've heard back one edifying & erudite missive regarding giving a "Society, Info Tech and the Global University" paper, re Ch 9 in my upcoming book & WUaS, at the 2026 International Social Media and Society #SMSociety conference at the University of Glasgow between M 7/13 & 7/15. Had also asked Gemini AI about renting small camping vans with wet baths in Britain, and got some great suggestions, which is still an option, but may be flying and taking trains instead ... with possibly a rental car on Skye for a week potentially to get from Raasay and back. May inquire with D.... if she would like to meet for some part of this trip ... if way opens, or ...

Tammie will you be at the MacLeod Parliament too - and with your family? 

(How best to charge an American smartphone and laptop in the British Isles these days?)

Regarding -
Avatar Agent Electronic Records - for genetic genealogy too? - from this conceptually - 

And brainstorming eventually code James McLeod in the 1820s talking with his father Norman McLeod on Raasay about their ancestors in those 2 human figure avatars you can see. :)


Do you both know Head of Research and Professor Abigail Burnyeat wife of the keynote speaker Professor Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiubhart? I know them both a bit from the university of Edinburgh and the School of Celtic and Scottish Studies from 2003-2004 when as a student I wrote a MSc dissertation about virtual St.Kilda off Skye where MacLeods were factors -

MacLeod, Scott Gordon K. 2004. Physical and Online St. Kilda: A Comparison of 'Senses of Place.'  M.Sc. Dissertation. Edinburgh, Scotland: University of Edinburgh (accessible online -  http://scottmacleod.com/MacLeod%20Physical%20and%20Online%20St%20Kilda%20A%20%20Comparison%20of%20Senses%20of%20Place%20MSc%20Dissertation%20University%20of%20Edinburgh.pdf & see too - http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm which I'm updating).

Thanks so much for the ideas for places to stay Mark! 

Scott 


  
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I may explore asking Alastair McIntosh in Glasgow, from Lewis originally, and a long-time Scottish Quaker (and activist, and out of the 1960s) where to stay in Glasgow around the conference and possibly re Quaker hospitality too - and re genealogy sources too.


On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 9:38 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

Mark, Tammie, Janie, Byron,

Happy gene-day (nee birthday) today further, Mark, now on January 27 2026. (Every day is a gene day, n'est-ce pas?:)

Just submitted an extended abstract to give a paper at the Univ of Glasgow at a Social Media and Society conference between M July 13-15

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/01/loch-lomond-and-trossachs-national-park.html - and as my 9th chapter in my upcoming 6th book "Society, Information Technology, and the Global University" (Academic Press at WUaS, 2026, forthcoming).

Made first contact about this via the AoIR list with a Harry Dyer at the University of East Anglia, whose last name is the same as a well known Quaker from the 1650s in Boston, Mary Dyer ... and re your father, a favorite uncle of mine, Bruce Vincent MacLeod's Quakerism, and search on Dyer here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/01/cairngorms.html ? 


So it's possible I'll be heading to Scotland then. I noticed, Mark, you're doing genetic genealogy at the MacLeod Parliament again this August 1-7 on the Isle of Skye - 

https://www.clanmacleod.org/parliament/parliament-2026/clan-macleod-parliament-august-2026-update/ - too. It's possible I might seek to stay in Scotland from W July 15th through the MacLeod parliament at Dunvegan (interesting cultural 'explorations' potentially and "from the inside" - and anthropologically). I may also seek in-between time to take an in-person Piobaireachd piping lesson or two from PM Stuart Liddell in Argyllshire or similar - bringing my Scottish small pipes - and hear lots of piping during this time too. (Might I even be able to invite D.... L... MD to come along from SF for some of this somehow? We haven't met or connected in-person yet).

In these regards, and with you great knowledge of genetic genealogy, and genealogy, and MacLeod genealogy especially, am wanting to grow my WikiTree genealogy platform knowledge and skills (who were my Grandpa's Sandy Brown's Scottish ancestors - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Brown-92991 AND re my MacLeod ancestors too - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524#Ancestors and https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacLeod-2524)  - and to write down lots of genealogical history and narratives (ethnographically even?) I might learn in this trip to Skye and Scotland (in WikiTree in part) - and potentially interoperating WikiTree with Ancestry .com and 23andme .com and GEDmatch ... and re the MacLeod Y-chromosome DNA project (https://www.clanmacleod.org/genealogy/dna-project/) ... and even take some next steps with genealogical avatar agent electronic health records becoming digital twins of all of us ... AND in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenealogy ... in one realistic virtual earth ... would love to talk with, and ask questions of, some ancestors like kilt maker and tailor James McLeod on Prince Edward Island in the 1850s for example.

In some of these regards, I asked Gemini AI about all these genealogy platforms, re genetic genealogy, too,  and learned something, and see PSs. 

Mark, I may seek to stay with Friends / Quakers in Glasgow or Edinburgh when and if I give my Society, Info Tech and Global Univ paper; where would you suggest staying on Skye or Raasay or similar during the MacLeod Parliament? (I think there's an unprogrammed Quaker Meeting on Skye that may meet once a month of similar ... and I may somehow seek to inquire there re possible hospitality too). 

(Am continuing to seek to move into a newly safe vacant with property deed 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 soonish, and with US federal law and state of CA law working effectively together in new ways).

Tammie are you hosting the MacLeod tent at the 160th! Caledonian Highland Games again this year in Pleasanton on 9/5 &6? 

Warm regards, Hold fast, abolition, best wishes,

Scott

blogged about some of this genealogy with genetics before here, with a MacLeod parliament photo from the 1950s, - and may add this email too here:  

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/05/hawaiian-monk-seal.html?m=0

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/SGKMacLeod%20family%20history?m=0

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/identity?m=0

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/igenes?m=0



PS

1

How sophisticated is the wiki tree genealogy platform for genetics for genealogical genetics?

https://g.co/gemini/share/6cdbff24a77c


2

How sophisticated is ancestry.com for genealogical data and for genealogy genetically?

https://g.co/gemini/share/3940de5d5fbc


3

How sophisticated is the genealogy platform 23andMe for genetic genealogy

https://g.co/gemini/share/b71eb8e7690b


4

How best to interoperate the genealogy platforms of Wiki tree and ancestry.com and 23andMe if at all possible. What are some interesting examples of this? Is there a fourth platform that might integrate them?

https://g.co/gemini/share/66b7ed69ddf9


5

Can I use gedmatch GED match for genealogy genetics and as a genealogy platform ?

https://g.co/gemini/share/a1a3365316ac

https://www.gedmatch.com/



PPS

Expanded with Gemini responses - 


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How sophisticated is the wiki tree genealogy platform for genetics for genealogical genetics?


WikiTree is highly sophisticated for collaborative verification, though it operates differently than major testing sites. Instead of performing direct DNA matching, it acts as a metadata hub where users link their test results to specific tree profiles.






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